COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY WITH SYNOPSIS

Director (feature film)

1.

Pickup on 101 (1972)
as Assistant Director
Nicky is hitchhiking through the Southwest when she meets an elderly homeless man, and the two of them are picked up by an unemployed musician named Les. While on the road, the three continually run into problems from the establishment and the stress results in the elderly man having a fatal heart a

The Hook (1963)
as Assistant Director
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they''''re ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

5.

Take a Giant Step (1960)
as Assistant Director
A troubled black teenager tries to find his place in a white world.

6.

The Leech Woman (1960)
as Assistant Director
A faded beauty leaves a trail of murder from Africa to the United States when she discovers a compound that will restore her lost youth--when consumed with fluid from the pineal gland of the newly dead.

7.

Curse of the Undead (1959)
as Assistant Director
B-grade western with a twist: mysterious gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.

8.

This Earth Is Mine (1959)
as Assistant Director
In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object: marriage to the heir of another vineyard, to further consolidate holdings in the Valley. But John Rambeau, Elizabeth's illegitimate cousin, has other ideas about who she should marry, and sharply opposes patriarch Philippe's refusal to sell wine grapes to bootleggers. John's activities bring violence to the valley, and soap opera to the Rambeau family...

Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
as Assistant Director
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music!

11.

Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
as Assistant Director
An outlaw is mistaken for a U.S. marshal while planning a bank robbery.

12.

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
as 2d asst dir
An artist turns to drink when his daughter dies suddenly.

13.

Summer Love (1958)
as Assistant Director
A coed summer resort camp rocks with music and romance when a group of entertainers arrives to kick off the season.

14.

Wild Heritage (1958)
as Assistant Director
The Breslins (Jake, Emma, three boys, and nubile daughter) cross the plains in a covered wagon, then pause in a lawless western town where Jake is shot by gunslingers Arn and Jud. But folksy Judge Copeland persuades them to go on. At Break Wagon Hill, their wagon does the obvious and they homestead on the spot. We follow their trials and joys and those of neighbors, the Bascombs. Finally, violence reappears in the form of a pair of rustlers...our old friends Arn and Jud.

15.

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
as Assistant Director
Chameleon-like actor Lon Chaney becomes a star while coping with his first wife's insanity.

The Tattered Dress (1957)
as Assistant Director
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

The Monolith Monsters (1957)
as Assistant Director
A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths which then topple and shatter into thousands of pieces that grow into monoliths themselves and repeat the process. Any humans in the way are crushed or turned into human statues. The citizens of San Angelo desperately try to save themselves and the world from the spreading doom.

20.

Istanbul (1957)
as Assistant Director
Adventurer James Brennan returns to Istanbul five years after being ejected under suspicion of diamond smuggling. In flashback, he recalls his last days there, his torrid love affair with Stephanie Bauer, the efforts of shady characters to obtain a strange ornament he received from a friend, and Stephanie's disappearance during a fire. Now that Brennan is back, Stephanie (or her double) reappears, and there's still the question of where the supposedly smuggled diamonds are...

21.

The Land Unknown (1957)
as Assistant Director
On a naval expedition to Antarctica, three men and reporter Maggie Hathaway crash-land in a crater 1000 m below sea level. There, they encounter steamy tropical forest, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and human footprints, as Maggie's clothes become more and more abbreviated.

22.

Raw Edge (1956)
as Assistant Director
In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery decrees that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Dan Kirby is lynched, starting a stampede to claim his half-Indian wife Paca. Trouble starts with the local tribe, but worse is in store when Dan's tough brother Tex rides in. The zeal of Montgomery's men to protect him from Tex is tempered by their lust for Hannah, who'd be his widow.

23.

Walk the Proud Land (1956)
as Assistant Director
A government agent tries to treat the Apaches with respect.

24.

Pillars of the Sky (1956)
as Assistant Director
A cavalry officer trying to stop an Indian war gets involved with a married woman.

Assistant Direction (feature film)

25.

Fallen Angel (1981)
Controversial child pornography drama involving a 13-year-old runaway and a photographer who induces her to pose for dirty pictures. One of the highest rated TV movies of its time, it received an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Drama Special.

Assistant Direction (special)

26.

More Wild Wild West (1980)
as 1st Assistant Director
Intrepid Old West U.S. intelligence agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon returned from TV's netherland for one final assignment in the guise of stars Robert Conrad and Ross Martin to do battle with a daffy megalomaniac, played by Jonathan Winters, with the dubious assistance of the arrogant head